Dieter child

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Dieter Kind (born October 5, 1929 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ; † June 10, 2018 in Braunschweig ) was a German electrical engineer. He was president of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).

Career

Kind studied electrical engineering at the TH Berlin and the Technical University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1957 in Munich in high-voltage engineering (the surface area when technical electrode arrangements are exposed to shock loads in the air ). After working in industry at Messwandler-Bau (MWB) in Bamberg, where he developed test transformers, among other things, he was Professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig as successor to Erwin Otto Marx from 1962 and President of PTB from 1975 to 1995 as the first engineer. The reorganization of the metrological services after reunification also fell during his term of office . He was an honorary professor at the TH Braunschweig .

From 1984 to 1996 he was President of the International Committee for Weights and Measures ( Comité International des Poids et Mesures ). He was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , the German Physical Society and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) . In 1978 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the development of test and measurement procedures for high voltage engineering . He received the ring of honor from the Association of Electrical, Electronics and Information Technology in 1988 and the Liebieg Medal from the Reichenberg home district in Augsburg , was an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich and was awarded the Ritter von Gerstner Medal .

Some of his books have been translated into English.

Fonts

  • The challenge of metrology: the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the development since 1945 . Bremerhaven 2002, ISBN 978-3897019027 .
  • with Kurt Feser: high-voltage test technology; with 12 laboratory tests . 5th edition Vieweg, 1995, ISBN 3528438053 .
  • Introduction to high-voltage test technology; for electrical engineers . 4th edition, Vieweg, 1985 (first 1972), ISBN 3528338059 .
  • with Hermann Kärner: High-voltage insulation technology for electrical engineers . Vieweg 1982.
  • with Hans Prinz: Introduction to heavy current technology, Munich, Institute for Electrical Systems and High Voltage Technology . 1956, 1961 (after lectures by Hans Prinz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Dieter Kind has passed away . June 12, 2018 ( ptb.de [accessed June 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Kind, An introduction to high-voltage experimental technique: textbook for electrical engineers, Vieweg 1978
  3. ^ Kind, Kärcher: High Voltage Isolation Technology, Vieweg 1985
personal data
SURNAME Child, dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2018
Place of death Braunschweig